anterior to
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The document they produced was, Beard argued, “essentially an economic document based upon the concept that the fundamental private rights of property are anterior to government and morally beyond the reach of popular majorities.”
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025
The patella, or kneecap, is a triangular bone that lies anterior to the knee joint.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
In all vertebrate multiple Hox clusters control the development of the body plan and they too show the sequential anterior to posterior arrangement in the genome.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
From anterior to posterior, the fossae increase in depth.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
It is probably anterior to it, and will survive it.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion
